Questions about the Backend Interface

[Dave Peticolas]

Derek Atkins writes:
> Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com> writes:
> 
> > Yes, that is the case. As long as the change happens in the normal
> > flow of control, the GUI should handle reparenting gracefully.
> 
> Ok, then all we need it a flag that I can set (from another thread)
> that the engine/gui loop checks and calls back into the backend
> whenever it's set.
> 
> I presume I can use 'gnc_book_get_group()' to get the top-level group
> in book?

Yes, correct.


> If so, then we just need something like:
> 	void gncSetEventFlag (void);
> 
> and the Backend method can be something like:
> 	void (*process_event) (Backend *be);

Ok, I will work on adding this today.

dave